1 Corinthians 15:53 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. ”

• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For this corruptible ... - It is necessary that a change should take place, either by dying and then being raised, or by being changed without seeing death; for we cannot enter heaven as we are n...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  A new question is now introduced, What will happen to those who are alive when Christ returns? ( cf . 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 ). The principle that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  corruptible . Greek. phthart . s . See Romans 1:23 . mortal . Greek. thnetos. See Romans 6:12 . immortality . Greek. athanasia. Only here, 1 Corinthians 15:54 , and 1 Timothy 6:16 . In...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  53. For this corruptible must Mark, how we shall live in the kingdom of God both in body and in soul, while at the same time flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God — for they s...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1995 DEATH A CONQUERED ENEMY 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 . Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at th...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. For this corruptible, etc. - Because flesh and blood cannot inherit glory; therefore, there must be a refinem...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For this corruptible, &c.— "For, in order hereunto, (το φθαρτον τουτο) this very individual decaying and corruptible body, which is now liable to putrefaction, and will soon corrupt in the grav...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. This - pointing to his own and their body. Put on - as a garment ( 2 Corinthians 5:2-3 ). Immort...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  (f) The Fact and the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Dead Some Corinthians disbelieved in the resurrection of the dead—not, apparently, in Christ's Resurrection, though St. Paul felt this wo...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  For this corruptible must... — Here again is repeated the truth of 1 Corinthians 15:50 , which shows the absolute necessity for a change in the nature of the resurrection body. There is, however...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Victory over Sin and Death 1 Corinthians 15:42-58 Life on the other side will be as real and as earnest as here. We shall not dissolve into thin mist or flit as bodiless ghosts. We shall each b...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The last fact of the "spiritualities" is the resurrection, and the apostle first gives the proof of the resurrection of Christ. His final proof was his own experience. It is evident that there were...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  . But the miraculous and instantaneous change from mortality to immortality, which he here asserts, and which is to be wrought without passing through death, this is a mystery nowhere else spoken of....

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For this corruptible must put on incorruption ,.... The apostle returns to what he had before asserted, concerning the necessity of an alteration in the qualities of bodies, in order to the enjoymen...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. Ver. 53. For this corruptible ] Pointing to his body, he speaketh, as Psalms 34:6 ; "This poor man cried...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For this corruptible This human nature, which is corruptible; must In order to its partaking of the above-mentioned glory; put on incorruption Be endued with such qualities as shall continue in...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  This chapter itself forms a third division of the book, and deals with another most serious matter in Corinth. Some among them denied the resurrection of the dead. But the resurrection of Christ is t...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Resurrection of Saints. A. D.  57.       51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all slee...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  God hath so decreed, that our flesh and blood, in the state wherein now it is, shall not be glorified; it shall be the same body as to the substance, but not as to the qualities; it is now corruptab...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  'For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 15:35 .— (1) Emphasis on “ the dead ,—the DEAD!—the DEAD!” (2) “ With what (kind of) body? ” See Homiletic Analysis. 1 Corinthians 15:36 .—Emphasis on “ thou ”...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  1 Corinthians 15:50-53 The two main propositions contained in this verse are the following the first, Flesh and blood is corruption; the second, The kingdom of God is incorruption. I. Flesh and b...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  1 Corinthians 15:1-2 . Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memo...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Corinthians 15:1 . I declare unto you the gospel by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you. We have here an epitome of the whole gospel, comprising essentially th...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of God I. The general law. 1. This carries with it its own proof: for, obviously, darkness might a...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 15:1-46 The doctrine of the resurrection. This chapter, and the thirteenth, on Christian love, stand out, even among the writings of St. Paul, as pre-eminently be...

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The transformation of the last day and the victory over death:

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 3:2 ; 2 Corinthians 5:2-4 ; Ephesians 4:24 ; Galatians 3:27 ; Romans 13:12-14

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• 1 Corinthians 15:53 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  How Are the Dead Raised Up? 1 Corinthians 15:29-58 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are two rather startling questions asked and answered in the opening verses; that is, from 1 Corinthians 15:29-34...

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